I’m not even sure why I’m bothering to post the trailer to his game. I’m sure many of us have seen House of the dead 2 and 3 before. None the less, here goes.

I can tell you now that I won’t be buying this. Sega couldn’t even add new shit to the games. They just straight ported the Dreamcast and Xbox games respectively. Some call it faithful porting, I call it straight up lazy. Sega have revealed this game will release at the budget price of $29.99, which works out at about �15. But knowing how UK gamers get shafted when it comes to games, the price will probably get rounded up to about �24.99. I think it would’ve been a much better move for Sega to have released this game via the Wii shop. But as we all know, the Wii has no hard drive to facilitate such a thing. A download of this game would’ve gone down better, because I honestly think asking people to get up and go to a shop to buy this game is too much. I loved House of the dead 2, about 9 years and 2 generations ago. I still wonder why the first game appears to have been omitted from the Wii re-release, but it could well feature as an unlockable. That would be pretty cool as it’d mark the first time an arcade perfect version of the game has appeared on a console. I know it released on the Sega Saturn, but let’s face it. None of those ragged Saturn ports Sega did of their arcade games were ever arcade perfect.

Despite my cynicism I think any release of an arcade game is good, period. I’m glad Sega are continuing to follow the trend they set on the Dreamcast and GameCube by re-releasing their console and arcade classics, but I’d like to see Sega push it more. I’d like to see their more successful arcade games re-released, along with some of their more obscure titles such as Last Bronx and Virtual On. Sega have such a brilliant back catalog of arcade games and it seems they’re forgetting all about them.

House of the dead 2 & 3 return is slated for a March 18 North American release.

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